Jacques Julien Guerin

Biography

It is originating in an old family of Larchamp, nephew of Gatien Guerin, priest of Larchamp. It is wire of Jacques Guerin, sior of Boisnière, and Jeanne Marais, having for godfather and godmother, Jean and Jeanne Guerin.

The June 6th 1774, it entered like soldier to the 46e regiment of infantry, was named corporal the June 16th 1780, and sergeant the January 17th 1781. From this last year with 1783, it attended the Siège of Mahon (where it accepted a wound) and with that of Gibraltar.

Fact quartermaster-sergeant on May 1st 1785, it became second lieutenant the December 10th 1791, lieutenant the April 26th 1792, captain the October 23rd of the same year after the Prise of Mainz, and associated with the adjudant-generals the 8 frimaire year II. It was, during these last years with the Siège of Whorl, with the catch of Worms, that of Mainz, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kœnisteim and Limbourg, with the defense of Frankfurt against the Prussians. After having fought with the Business of Bingen, it remained in Mainz, as long as lasted the blockade of this place.

Employed in the Vendée, it announced the 24 vendémiaire year III to the combat between Cholet and Mortagne, and was wounded there. It was distinguished again, the 22 frimaire, with the battles of Mans, the 3 nivôse with Savenay, the 13 and 14 with the Affaires of Machecoul, the 8 messidor near Moustier-les-Maufaits, and, 21 germinal year III, with the Expédition of Chanseaux, which it directed; but, in consequence of an error of the representative Aubry, who had not included/understood it in his work of organization of the staffs, it took again its rank of captain, and remained in this position until the 28 meadow year VI, time of its nomination to the rank of adjudant-general chief of brigade.

Envoy the same year in the 11th military division, it ordered there successively the departments of the the Pyrenees, the Landes and the the Gironde.

Promoted at the Brigadier general rank of the 12 brumaire year VIII, it was put at the treatment of reform the 1st vendémiaire year X, passed, the 29 messidor according to, in the 24e military division, and was invested command of the Rhine-and-Moselle, when, the 19 frimaire year XII, the First Consul named it member of the Légion of honor. Fact ordering of the Order the 25 meadow following, it was used with the Large army as 1806 with 1807, and made the campaigns of Spain of 1808 with 1809.

Created, in 1808, Count of the Empire, with authorization to add to its name that of Walderbach, it accepted, the January 4th 1809, with the head office of Saragossa, an enough serious wound to oblige it to require its recall. Arrived in France at March of the same year, it began again, the April 8th, the command of the department of the Rhine-and-Moselle, which it left, on May 1st 1813, to go to Mainz in order to organize there the troops which went to the Large army. The October 12th according to, the marshal Duc of Valmy gave him the order to escort, to the large general headquarter, an artillery park and vans containing the treasure.

In 1814, the Guerin general belonged to the garrison of Metz, and after the events of April, it ordered temporarily the place of Sarrelouis. Fact Knight of Saint-Louis the August 13rd, it had, the December 22nd, the command of Saint-Mihiel (Meuse). It occupied this station the March 20th 1815. The 23, it made take with the troops the tricolor Cocarde, went the 15 to Bar, the effect to return to the army the soldiers absent from their bodies, and came to Paris the 26 to receive new orders there.

The Emperor sent it, the May 5th, with Nancy, there to organize and order the national guards. The 30, it left for La Rochelle in order to take there the command of a brigade of the army of the general Lamarque. The Guerin general, allowed with the retirement the September 4th according to, lived since entirely foreign with the events. He died in April 1844.

Source

, T. IV, p. 433-434.

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